QTPOC Issue 2017
a note from the editors Luther Hughes Nicole Oquendo Omotara James Marisa Adame Saquina Karla C. Guiam Casey Rocheteau Rachel Wiley Nadim Choufi Ashanti Anderso...
Tag: rejection
first time i ever saw 2 men kiss / Orlando: part one | e nina jay
maybe i’m not really a lesbian I’m an adventurous masturbator… I love to fuck myself * 19 my first serious girlfriend was older...
“Everyone Should Cough into Their Elbows” By: Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
“Why won’t you just cough into your elbows?” Dad’s coughs are echoing off the walls again. It’s been two weeks and both of them are still sick. I sometime...
QPOC Issue
Welcome to our QPOC Issue that features 14 unique and beautiful voices.
“The Good Friend” By: Alexandra Stanislaw-Bennett
I’ve made mistakes, plenty. I’m not afraid to admit it. I take responsibility for all of them, even this one. She has brown hair and brown eyes and looks ...
“The Last Like” By: Tiara DeGuzman
1. From what I knew of her, Jenny was an art kid. She was known for her small eccentricities—paint dotted hands, glittery overalls. Her hair was big, curly brow...
“A Charismatic, Brutal Mormon Boy” By: Amasa Guy Larkins
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, arise...
“This Is Not a Cake” By: Kate McCorkle
On the final stretch of her eight mile run Morgan became fixated on the last slice of pumpkin praline cake leftover from Thanksgiving—a significant wedge lying ...
“I Never Went to that Lacrosse Game” By: CLS Ferguson
We stood at the top of those stairs; the ones that led from the major street below, steeply up the hill to the Souplantation parking lot. The stairs where I had...
“The Scar on Your Hand” By: Sheridan Gillam
Sitting in my truck, I remember the scar on your hand. I remember how it was revealed by the sleeve of your sweatshirt scrunched up against my side as your arm ...